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Education in Home Economics 




Home Economics Building, Iowa State College. 




AMES, IOWA 



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The College 



The Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
Arts conducts work along five major lines: 

Agriculture Home Economics 

Engineering Industrial Science 

Veterinary Medicine 

The Graduate Division conducts advanced research and 
instruction in all these five lines. 

Four, five, and six year collegiate courses are offered in 
different divisions of the College. Non-collegiate courses are 
offered in agriculture, engineering, and home economics. 
Summer sessions include graduate, collegiate, and non-col- 
legiate work. Short courses are offered in the winter. 

Extension courses are conducted at various points thru- 
out the state. 

Research work is conducted in the Agricultural and Engi- 
neering Exper ment stations and in the Veterinary research 
laboratory. 

Special announcements of the different branches of the 
work are supplied, free of charge, on application. The gen- 
eral college catalogue will be sent on request. 

Address HERMAN KNAPP, Registrar, 

Ames, Iowa. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Page 

The need of education in home economics 5 

What opportunity offers the graduate 6 

The scope of home economics 8 

The studies open to women •:.*...] 10 

Home economics and agriculture :».'.'.' 14 

The methods of instruction 15 

The home economics equipment 17 

Physical culture for women 22 

College life at Ames 24 

Women's student activities 28 

Entrance requirements 30 

Two year home economics course 31 



OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF 

IOWA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 

AND MECHANIC ARTS 



Vol. XVI JULY 25, 1917 No. 8 



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Education in Home Economics 



"If it is necessary to educate men in terms of their daily 
life, it is evident that to be properly trained, woman must be 
educated in terms of her daily life, A woman's education 
will be worth while only as it deals with realities. The day 
of educating girls in accomplishments is past- --we must have 
accomplishments as a result of our educational system, not as 
the aim. "---Liberty Hyde Baily. 



AMES, IOWA 



Published weekly. Entered as second-class 
matter, October 26, 1905, at the Post Office at 
Ames, under Act of Congress of July 16, 1904. 



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Education in Home Economics 

IXETY-FIVE PER CENT of the women in 
America become homemakers sooner or 
later in the conrse of their careers. 

For that reason home making, with all 
that it implies, has from the beginning 
been the important purpose in the educa- 
tion offered to women at Iowa State Col- 
lege. The pioneer courses, opened in 1869, 
were arranged with that purpose in view. 
From the beginning at this institution it 
lias been recognized that the home is so 
closely linked with the social and economic 
welfare of both community and nation 
that the failure of the one means the failure of the others. 
"How to live? — that is the essential question for us," says Her- 
bert Spencer; "in what way to treat the body; in what wa^ to 
treat the mind ; in what way to manage our affairs ; in what way 
to bring up a family ; in what way to behave as a citizen — how 
to live completely? To prepare us for complete living is the 
function which education has to discharge." 

For women, preparation for such complete living must in- 
clude a study of household administration and management, not 
merely of the private household, but also, of institutional house- 
holds- of foods, textiles and other materials and their produc- 
tion and use ; of hygiene, sanitation and economics as they con- 
cern both home and community; of the care of children and 
their education ; of the social and economic status of women, 
and of many other things affecting home and community life. 
These subjects, therefore, are given the principal place in the 
instruction of women at Ames. They have a bearing alike on 
the life and work of women in town and in the country. If 
the student expects to live in the country, she may fit herself 
more fully for her life there by taking some agricultural sub- 
jects or by enrolling as a student for a combination course in 
home economics and agriculture. 

Education along such lines takes on especial value in these 
times of world upset. It will be of equal value in the years fol- 
lowing the war when the world seeks to restore itself. Women 
are now facing responsibilities and duties in the home and in 
the community such as they never faced before. They are 
called on to give more than ever, both in old ways and m new, 
to help maintain national life at a high state of efficiency when 
desperate forces are struggling to pull it do^^^l. More than ever 
there is a demand upon them for skill in the tasks that are 



peculiarly women's tasks. ''The woman Avho handles the food 
supply in the home is equal in importance to the man who han- 
dles the gun on the battlefield," writes J. Ogclen Armour, food 
authority. "The triumph of the soldier depends upon the 
efficiency with which housewives conserve the food supplies so 
that hunger may not be added to our foes." Altho women re- 
main at home in time of national trouble like this, they and the 
homes they make constitute the real bulwark of national life. 
Following the war, the call upon women will be greater than 
ever for a homemaking that will give the nation men and 
women of strength, character, courage, ability and skill to re- 
store and rebuild a world torn down. Women are, of course, 
called upon in such times of readjustment as these to under- 
take many other labors, but l^e nation looks to them to do this 
great work of homemaking first of all, because that' is the very 
foundation of national life. 

In response to the very urgent need for women's contribu- 
tion to preparedness for the war other than in the home sj^ecial 
courses in Red Cross work have been arranged and will be of- 
fered to the women, just as military courses are offered to the 
men. 

What Opportunity Offers the Graduate 

I LIST outside the immediate field of the home, also, lie large 
*^ opportunities for women with thoro training in home eco- 
nomics. Teaching is perhaps the greatest of these, made so by 
the rapidly increasing demand for instruction in home eco- 




A view thru the general offices of the Home Economics division. 




birdseye view of the central portion of the campus, with Agricultural hall. 
Central building- and Engineering hall in order, left to right. 



nomics in the public schools and the colleges. Within a few 
years vast sums have been appropriated by state and federal 
governments for vocational education, creating so many new 
places for especially trained teachers every year that the supply 
is not adequate. 

Extension work and county supervisorships in home eco- 
nomics are calling for more and more women fitted by educa- 
tion and experience to enter these fields. From the cities, also, 
will come a demand for women equipped to serve as home dem- 
onstrators. Social service work as it deals with household ad- 
ministration is looking to home economics graduates to supply 
its trained women. This is also true of the play ground move- 
ment. Hospitals are putting more and more emphasis on thoro 
preparation in home economics for their dietitians, and public 
institutions for their household managers. Municipalities are 
employing Avomen as food and sanitary inspectors. News- 
papers and magazines are looking more and more to home 
economics courses to supply their principal contributors on 
household subjects and editors of their women's departments. 

In the business field women with technical training in 
different phases of home economics will find openings as mana- 
gers of cafeterias or tea rooms, experts in textiles with large 
mercantile establishments, advisors in home furnishing, hotel 
managers, laundry managers, managers or owners of dress- 
making, millinery or women's and children's furnishing estab- 
lishments, and in various other lines. Thru their ingenuity in 
applying their special training, home economics graduates have 
opened up many other ways of useful and profitable employ- 
ment. 



Besides all this, women with the serviceable education of a 
home economics course find that it fits them for community 
leadership in movements for social and economic betterment, a 
service that may not bring direct financial returns, but which 
pays wonderfully in happiness and satisfaction. 

The Scope of Home Economics 
Education 

DUCATION in home economics is not nar- 
row, but as broad as the interests of the 
home, and they reach into many fields of 
knowledge. How generously cultural, sci- 
entific and technical subjects have all been 
drawn upon for the education of women at 
Iowa State College becomes evident with 
a brief survey of the scope and organiza- 
tion of the instruction in home economics 
at Iowa State College. 

The home economics division com- 
prises three departments, domestic art, 
domestic science and physical culture, 
each offering its own special work. 

Domestic art includes instruction in 
textiles and clothing, appilied art and the history of art, 
twenty-eight studies in all being offered. Their range is wide, 
for they deal with textiles and their manufacture and their use 
in clothing, with dressmaking, millinery and costume design 
and history, with art and design in their application to the 
building of the home, its decoration and its furnishing, and to 
various handicrafts. 

Domestic science includes instruction in foods, hygiene, 
nutrition and dietetics, household management and training in 
the teaching of these subjects, nineteen subjects in all. 

The department of physical culture concerns itself, first, 
with the well being and correct physical development of the 
young women of the college thru games, sports and gymnas- 
tics, both indoors and out, and second, it offers instruction to 
equip them to teach others- 

The technical instruction within the division of home eco- 
nomics is supported by the work of other divisions of the col- 
lege. The division of industrial science provides instruction 
along general lines, and in the foundation sciences. The divi- 
sion of agriculture, thru its department of agricultural educa- 
tion, provides the instruction in the theories and practice of 
teaching, while other departments offer such courses in agri- 





The women of Marg-a 



ret hall dormitory welcoming 



the postman. 




A rame of Hoo.e. under the ..ado„ of .,e Campan.,e. 



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culture as suit the needs of women, particularly those inter- 
ested in gardening, the beautification of home grounds, poultry 
husbandry, dairying, beekeeping, or gefteral farming. The 
engineering division contributes instruction along such archi- 
tectural and mechanical engineering lines as are of value to a 
woman in her home work, in the teaching of manual training, 
or in any other vocation she may choose to follow. In general 
it may be said that any of the studies offered by any division 
of the colllege may be elected by home economics students. 

Four different collegiate courses are offered this year by 
the home economics division as follows: a four year course with 
emphasis on domestic art; a four year course with emphasis on 
domestic science ; a four year combined course in home econom- 
ics and agriculture ; a fi\ie year combined course in home eco- 
nomics and industrial science. Graduate work is also oft'ered in 
addition. In the courses in domestic art and domestic science, 
the studies for the first two years are the same, the differentia- 
tion coming with the junior year. 

The Studies Open to Women 

TT HE studies that make up the instruction in the home econom- 
* ics courses may be classified in four groups: 

General and cultural studies comprise the first group. 
They are calculated to give breadth of understanding and sym- 




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An understanding of the sciences should underlie all home economics study. 

pathv and mental training and to help make more efficient 
the scientific and technical training. To this group belong 
the studies in English, literature, history, modern languages, 
mathematics and physical culture. Studies in public speak- 
ing are included because the educated woman of to-day needs 
to be able to give of herself and of her knowledge and experi- 
ence thru public speech to her clubs, to her community and 
to its schools and churches. The newspapers and magazines 
need women who can write entertainingly and accurately on 
the problems of women and the home and of hygiene, sanitation 
and education, so this need has been recognized in studies in 
journalism, Avhich have grown rapidly in popularity. 

The second group comprises the studies in science. They 
are of utmost importance and one-third of the time of home 
economics courses is given to them. Practically all of the proc- 
esses of the home are based on changes in and combinations of 
the materials used and these cannot be thoroly understood or 
skillfullv used without some understanding of the sciences 
involved. Baking, cooking, food preservation, the correct selec- 
tion and balancing of foods, and various other things^ in house- 
hold practice cannot be mastered without training in bacter- 
iologv and chemistry. A study of botany is essential in the 
same* wav for a thoro understanding of many other fundamen- 
tal relationships. The study of physics gives essential knowl- 
edge of the principles of heat, light, sound, and electricity, 
great farces which enter closely into the daily life of all. The 
correct selection and handling of textiles again is based on one 
or more of the sciences. To understand something of human 
life, how to care for the body, how to prevent disease, and what 
to do in event of sickness or of accident, a woman needs just 




One of several elementary chemistry laboratories. 



such instruction as is given in courses in physiology and zool- 
ogy. Because she spends for the family the larger proportion 
of the money earned by it, the woman of today should know 
something of the fundamental laws of economic science; be- 
cause she is coming into a larger place in community life, she 
needs to understand something of the laws that affect women 
directly, and these subjects are presented thru the studies in 
economic science. 

Those studies that give special preparation for teaching, 
may be considered the third group- Some of them are essen- 
tial even for the ordinary relationships of life, for the teaching 
that comes in the home with the rearing of children, and for 
the understanding of human motives and conduct. Psychol- 
ogy, which falls in this group is not a forbidding subject, but 
interesting as well as vital, for it deals with the most common 
and fundamental activities of life — the activities of the mind. 
Other subjects in this group deal more fully with theory and 
practice of education and are essential for the teacher in the 
school or college. With all of the studies offered in this group 
the graduate may meet the full requirements of the law for a 
first grade state teacher's certificate in Iowa. 

The fourth group comprises the technical studies in home 
economics, which take up about one-third of the time of the 



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home economic courses. These studies make application of 
science to the work of the home maker in its many phases. 
They arouse genuine enthusiasm because they give the reason 
why for many things that may not have been clearly under- 
stood before. In these studies the young woman may work out 
the theories she has gathered in class rooms and laboratories. In 
these studies she may express herself in the preparation and 
service of food, in the planning and furnishing of the home, 
and in the study of clothing and costume design. She learns 
about textiles and other materials, how they are made, where 
they come from, and their many uses. She practices sewing by 
hand and by machine, designing and fitting garments, cutting 
patterns, and designing and making hats. She studies 
the best methods of the laundry. She works out clothing and 
good budgets for the family. She learns the relationship be- 
tween food and human physical, mental and moral development 
and how best to combine foods for most economicaland satis- 
factory nourishment. Likewise she learns of the sources of 
foods, their modes of preparation and the methods of distribu- 
tion and sanitary control. These subjects secure and hold in- 
terest because they are so closely related to the life and work 
of women and because they are presented in every day terms. 




A class in applied design and house furnishing. 



Besides these technical subjects in home economics, others 
may be chosen from any other division of the college, providing 
the necessar}^ work prerequisite thereto has been done. 

Home Economics and Agriculture 

nr serve those who plan to live and work in rural communi- 

ties, the home economics division, with the cooperation of 
the agricultural division, has arranged a course of study which 
combines home economics and agricultural instruction. This 
course was planned to meet these different needs : 

1. — To serve the surprisingly^ large number of women in 
Iowa who own farms, many of whom operate them or interest 
themselves closely in their management. 

2. — To give special training to women who plan to live in 
the country, tho not to manage farms, and who will l)enefit by 
a knowledge of farm principles and practices in addition to 
their training in home economics. This agricultural knowledge 
will increase their efficiency and add much to their enjoyment 
of life in the country. 

3. — To give additional preparation to those who teach home 
economics in high schools and who are also expected to teach 
one or more subjects in agriculture. 

4. — To provide complete training for women to supply the 
increasing demand for county advisors in home economics. To 
be successful in such work thev should have not onlv training 




Getting direct knowledg-e of horticulture, wliich is only one of many agricultural 
subjects open to women. 



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Juniors serving a luncheon to apply their class room and laboratory instruction. 



in home economics but also such instruction in the business of 
farming as will enable them to talk and act intelligently from 
the view point of the woman on the farm. 

The Methods of Instruction 

THE methods used in teaching the subjects in all of these 
groups are in accord with the spirit of the college, whose 
motto is "Science with practice." Wherever possible, the 
principles and theories taught in the class room are given appli- 
cation in the laboratory and shop. That is true m the funda- 
mental sciences. It is true likewise of the techmcal subje^ts^ 
In addition to the customary laboratory work in »oaf f"f 
their preparation, the junior young women are req"'red to plan, 
buv provisions for, prepare and serve a series of typical meals 
in 'a large dining room seating from twenty-four to thirty guests. 
Bachlunior in her turn does every phase of the necessary work 
under the supervision of an instructor. 

In their senior year the young women put into use what 
they have gotten in their training in household management m 
a practice house. They occupy this house with an instructor m 
groups of six for a period of two weeks. Each stiident is m 
fiZ hostess, maid, laundress, cook and -^'f^?,- .^^hj. ;"^X 
tain guests and in other ways manage the household as it would 



be managed if it were the home of an average American family. 
In se\Wng, millinery and costume design the doing of things 
in a practical way is likewise emphasized. In the study of the 
liouse, each student selects a site, plans a house and its grounds, 
makes working drawings, works out a decorative scheme, selects 
or designs furnishings and draperies, all to the very last stick, 
nail and carpet tack, and within a certain prescribed cost. 

For those who plan to teach, practice work is offered in the 
Ames public sdhools, each student teaching eighteen practice 
lessons. To supplement this public school teaching, each sen- 
ior gives demonstrations in various home economics subjects, 
such as would be suitable for women's club meetings, teachers' 
institutes, rural groups and other meetings. 

To supplement the teaching of class room and laboratory, 
many exhibits of interest to women are brought to the college 
each year. They cover the* field of art, of the industries, of 
social welfare, of handicraft, of foods, of textiles, of education, 
of sanitation and hygiene. In the past year these exhibits in- 
cluded: Consumers' League; School of Industrial Arts; Phila- 
delphia; Art Institute of Chicago; Academy of Fine Arts, 
Chicago; Etchings by Ralph Pearson; Architectural exhibits; 
Elsov Art exhibits; Sophia Newcomb College Art exhibit; 
Berea College Handicraft exhibit ; School Lunch exhibit. 




The living room of the practice cottage where seniors are at home in groups 
of six thru the year. 



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The Home Economics Equipment 

EOAUSE in the teaching of scientific and 
technical subjects so much depends upon 
equipment, Iowa State College has always 
sought to keep well to the forefront in pro- 
viding facilities for the best work. 

For the instruction in bacteriology, 
botany, chemistry, physics, physiology and 
zoology use is made of the laboratories 
and equipment of the industrial science 
division, which are extensive and com- 
plete. Likewise, use is made of the labor- 
atories and equipment of the agricultural 
and engineering divisions for such studies 
in their fields as are chosen by home economics students. 

The principal laboratories and lecture rooms for home 
economics are located in the modern home economics building 
erected in 1911 at a cost of $75,000 and equipped at a cost of 
more than $10,000 additional. This building is now supple- 
mented by two others. One is a temporary structure, erected 
originally to house work in chemistry pending the completion 





The practice cottag-e kitchen, where seniors serve in every capacity 
of the home-maker. 




One of the several domestic science laboratories. 

of the large new chemistry laboratories. In this temporary 
structure are class rooms and laboratories for applied art, cos- 
tume design and textile design, office rooms and rooms for cor- 
rective gymnastics for women. The other additional structure 
is the practice house, a cottage of seven rooms furnished and 
equipped by the home economics division to accommodate six 
students and the instructor in charge. The furnishings are sim- 
ple but attractive and typical of the average American home. 

The several domestic science laboratories are well equipped. 
In each laboratory the desks are arranged in the form of a 




The domestic art laboratories are long, sunshiny rooms. A class in 
millinery at work. 



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hollow square and the}^ have tops of tile embedded in cement. 
Each student has her own gas plate, her own utensils in a con- 
venient cupboard underneath her desk top. Within the hollow 
square are located tables for food supplies, for utensils and for 
china, silver and glass. Each laboratory has several large 
cupboards, it has its OAvn attractive dishes, silver and glass ware, 
it has gas, coal and electric ranges, sinks, wash bowls, and 
commodious pantries and refrigerators. It has also tireless 
cookers, individual ovens and a full complement of larger uten- 
sils. The wood work in the laboratories is white enamelled 
and the walls are tinted gray. AA^hile at work in the laboratories 
the young women wear pink chambray uniforms with white 
caps and aprons. 

The sophomore domestic science laboratory is especially 
equipped for individual work in foods. The junior laboratory 




The making of various items of wearing apparel is an important part 
of instruction in domestic art. 



is fitted for cooking in large quantities and serving of meals. 
The senior laboratory is fitted for the study of nutrition and 
dietetics, particularly. Another room, fitted for demonstration 
purposes is used by the seniors in their demonstration and 
practice work. Large and small dining rooms open from the 
laboratories, each attractively decorated and furnished and 
each with its individual scheme and design in decorations and 
furnishings. 

The domestic art laboratories are long, sunshiny rooms with 



broad windows on two sides, insuring good lig-ht and ventila- 
tion. The equipment consists of oak tables with thick, un- 
varnished tops; chairs of comfortable height with cane seats 
and backs; sewing machines, with and without motors, and 
lockers with storage space for individual work boxes. 

In the fitting rooms adjoining each of these laboratories are 
three adjustable mirrors, fitting tables, clothes trees, and small 
supply tables. Dress forms, skirt markers of various kinds, but- 
ton covering, pinking and perforating machines, charts, im- 
ported textile exhibits of fiax, cotton, wool and silk, and much 
other demonstrating material Avill be found here. Two large 
laboratories, equipped with adjustable drawing desks and with 
an ample supply of illustrative material, accommodate classes in 
applied design and house furnishing. Copies of celebrated 
paintings, plaster casts of famous pieces of sculpture, and many 
colored prints serve as models for class room work and also 
arouse an appreciation for beauty of color, line and form. 
The collection of illustrative material for applied design is 
one of the most complete among home economics colleges in 
the United States and will be displayed in special cases that 
are being built for it. 

The basement of the main building contains class rooms, 
locker rooms and laundry rooms. 

The building is provided with a balopticon, a modern pro- 
jecting lantern, which throws clear images upon a screen, either 
thru slides or from pictures, prints and other opaque objects. 




Another of the domestic science laboratories, with fitting rooms in the distance. 




Home nursing is taught to give an understanding of the home care of the sick. 



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Such exhibits, as this of labor saving household devices, are offered at 
different times thru the year. 



Physical Culture 




N the education of woijien at Iowa State 
College special heed is given to their phys- 
ical well being and training. It is not con- 
sidered enoug'h that they get learning 
in their four years at Ames, but that they 
must also keep health and strength and 
even add thereto. Those who direct the 
educational work of the young women 
realize that a sound mind can live only in 
a sound body. They believe that Avhen 
she graduates, the college woman should 
be physically equipped to undertake the 
work for which she has prepared herself, 
so that with the priceless asset of healtih she may take back 
to those who made her youth's dreams a reality, abundant 
fruits from her four years at college, and so that as a leader 
she may in turn give to her community those ideals which 
will inspire it to greater achievement. 

All branches of physical training are therefore provided 
in the courses for women, for health is not merely the absence 
of disease, but organic vigor and organic efficiency. Recrea- 
tion hours, in the gymnasium, in the swimming pool or on 
the playgrounds, are scheduled in all student time cards. If 
corrective work is needed, that is carefully prescribed and 




These women have won the honor 



of the Women's Athletic association. 



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Outdoor sports, like golf and tennis and walking, comprise part of the 
training offered women. 




This women's gymnasium offers excellent facilities for indoor work 
in physical culture. 



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carried out. Among the branches of athletics offered in the 
fall and spring are basketball, baseball, golf, hockey, tennis 
and cross country "hikes." In the winter, instruction is given 
in swimming, folk and aesthetic dancing, games, apparatus 
work and elementary gymnastics. 

For those who are interested in the work of recreation 
centers and chautauqua assemblies, and in the art of story 
telling, courses are offered in playground supervision. 

The department of physical culture is well supplied with 
modern equipment for its work. Its large gymnasium is housed 
in Margaret hall, where all necessary apparatus may be found. 
This building, also houses the swimming pool and shower baths 
and the locker rooms in connection. Proficiency in swimming 
is required of all women students unless they are excused by 
order of a physician. In a separate building are the rooms 
for corrective gymnastics. The women have their own tennis 
courts and basketball and baseball grounds. To furnish stim- 
ulus in athletic work, medals, sweaters, bleacher blankets, lov- 
ing cups and college letters are offered in the various lines of 
sports. 

College Life at Ames 

HEN women enter Iowa State College they 
come into an environment that is favor- 
able. From the beginning the college has 
been friendly to women. They were ad- 
^^K'^^'^^^B mitted on equal terms with men in the 
first classes and they have enjoyed equal 
privileges ever since. The courses offered 
them were arranged to meet their special 
U (J ^L i^^eds as early as 1869, when home eco- 

I ^^^m ^M nomics subjects were taught at Ames for 

bJ^FBBriV^i^L. ^^^^ ^^^* ^^^^ ^^ ^ ^^"^ grant college, and 
dSjUJBllB ever since women have been able to get 
here instruction to fit them for their 
peculiar work in life. 

Women find at Iowa State College a campus that is widely 
known for its beauty. Its broad lawns, its gentle hills and 
slopes, its stately trees and blooming shrubs and flowers, in 
the midst of all which stand splendid buildings, impress upon 
the memory a picture of charm and delight. During their 
first year at college, when they are housed in the dormitories, 
they live in the very heart of this beautiful campus; every 
morning they hear the notes of the Campanile chimes, filling 
the air with inspiring music ; every day they go back and forth 
to class rooms thru surroundings that cannot fail to uplift. 



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One of the meny beauty spots along Squaw creek, which fiows thru the 
spacious college domain. 

The community in Which the college is located is whole- 
some. It has grown up as a typical college community and its 
chief business is to contribute its best to the life of the student 
body. The town of Ames is a clean home town. It has never 
been infested with the evils that so often mar a larger city. 
For example, it has never had a saloon, and it has always been 
free of many things that are linked with the saloon. The 
bad has never entered, in the way of amusements or otherAvise. 
The community does not merely keep out the bad ; it also 
provides diversions that are wholesome. The college neglects 



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nothing to provide enough of the best in the way of music, 
lectures, dramatics and other entertainments to give due zest 
and interest to life in college. Every forcg in town and on 
campus is at work for creating conditions that are best for 
young men and women in their college years and which call 
for complete living. 

In the first year of her life at Iowa State College, the 
new young woman finds that her life in the dormitories brings 
her much of pleasure and satisfaction. At present three larger 
halls of residence for women are in use and a fourth will be 
completed before the beginning of the 1917-18 college year. 
Margaret hall is the oldest of these and holds a happy place in 
the memories of many generations of college women at Ames. 

The new dormitories. East, West and South halls, are 




A glimpse thru the trees of the entrance 



's dormitory. 



located on the southeast side of the campus and form the 
beginning of a large women's residence quadrangle. The new 
halls are fireproof buildings; they are lighted by electricity, 
they have running hot and cold water in each room, and tub 
baths and needle baths on each floor. The rooms are all simply, 
but attractively furnished. Each hall has a recreation room, 
as well as large parlors, and a dining hall in charge of a grad- 
uate of the home economics division. Each hall is the center 
of many social and other activities and each encourages , the 
spirit of wholesome democracy among the women of the college. 
Sorority and club houses furnish attractive homes for soph- 
omore, junior and senior women. There are at present four 
national sororities and four local clubs, each of which maintains 
its own house near the campus. Each has a competent chap- 
erone and is very well managed. 



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This and the other single rooms of the women's residence halls have been 
planned to give comfort with simplicity. 




One of the double rooms of the women's residence halls. 



Women's Student Activities 

Mot all of the good that young women get out of college is 

secured from class rooms and laboratories, but much of 
it comes from the associated student activities. Consequently, 
student organizations for women have been encouraged at Iowa 
State College and they give ample opportunity for the fullest 
development of character, individuality, initiative and the 
social instincts. One of the strongest organizations on the 
campus is the Young Women's Christian Association. It has 
developed many branches of work so that there is something 
for the employment of every talent ; it maintains a sane, whole- 
some religious program that has an appeal to every woman; 
it encourages a fine spirit ^f democracy and fellowship, which 
has resulted in its becoming a great unifying force among the 
women of the college. 

A Woman's Guild, organized and maintained by the 
women on the basis of popular vote, deals with the prob- 
lems of self government as they affect the women of the col- 
lege, and furnishes opportunity for service of a valuable 
character. 

The Women's Athletic Association directs the various iuter- 
class games in various lines of sports for women and in ad- 
dition it takes charge of the annual May Day festival on the 
campus. 

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The greensward of the campus and the evergreens make a beautiful setting 
for outdoor pageants and festivals. 

orchestra work in the Glee club and in the College orchestra. 
Both organizations are under able leadership. The Glee club 
gives a number of concerts each year, both in Ames and in 
other cities of the state. 

The literary societies, which have long and creditable rec- 
ords at Iowa State College, supplement the social and literary 
activities of the college and give opportunity for the develop- 
ment of leadership thru public speech. The debating contests of 
the college are open to women and in the past women have 
furnished members of the intercollegiate debating teams. The 
dramatic clubs have had unusual growth in the past few 
years and their several plays each year give excellent oppor- 
tunities for those interested in that field of work. 

The Home Economics club furnishes a general forum for 
the discussion of subjects of interest in the home economics 
field and it also brings to the college many speakers of note. 
For the encouragement of scholarship in home economics, the 
women of the college maintain a chapter of Omicron Nu, the 
only national honorary fraternity for women. AVomen are also 
eligible to membership in the national honorary fraternity, 
Phi Kappa Phi, which maintains a chapter at Iowa State 
College. 

In its favorable environment, the education of women in 
home economics at Iowa State College has grown rapidly. 
At the present time its enrollment of women in four year 
home economics courses is in excess of 600. The quality of 
the work is attested by the fact that in the past year member- 
ship in the National Association of Collegiate Alumnge has 






The -n omen's glee club has a prominent place among- the activities of 
the women at Ames. 



been extended to graduates in home economics of Iowa State 
College, the first recognition of the kind granted by the so- 
ciety. 

Entrance Requirements 

Pntrance to Iowa State College is based on the standard for 
*^ the three state educational institutions. Applicants for ad- 
mission to the freshman class should be at least 16 years of age 
and they must present at least 15 units of high school work. 
An entrance unit is defined as 36 weeks of high school work in 
one subject of study, with five class periods per week, each 
not less than 40 minutes in length ; each laboratory period 
should be at least 85 minutes in length. Of the 15 entrance 
units, certain are required and the remainder may be elected. 

For admission to the division of home economics the re- 
quired units are: English, 3; history-civics-economics, 1; 
foreign languages, 2; mathematics, 2V2, with 11/^ in algebra and 
1 in plane geometry; additional units in English, history-civ- 
ics-economics, mathematics and the natural sciences, 2V2 
units; electives, 4 units; total, 15 units. In English the total 
units offered may not exceed 4; in historj^-civics-economics, 4. 
If foreign language is offered as an elective, at least one unit 
must be presented and not more than a total of 4 units. 

In natural science, the student may offer not to exceed 
4I/2 units, distributed among the various scientific subjects 
as follows: 



Agriculture 2 to 2 units 

Astronomy \ unit 

Biology, elementary i to 1 unit 
Botany i to 1 unit 

Chemistry, not less than 1 unit 
General science Vz to 1 unit 



Geology V2, unit 

Physical geography or 

physiography I to 1 unit 
Physics, not less than 1 unit 
Physiology \ unit 

Zoology i to 1 unit 



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As electives, not to exceed 4 units, the applicant may 
offer : business arithmetic, I/2 unit ; elementary bookkeeeping, 1/9 
to 1 unit ; advanced bookkeeping, V2 to 1 unit ; commercial law, 
1/4 unit ; stenography and typewriting, 1 to 2 units ; business 
correspondence, l^ unit; history of commerce, V2 nnit; eco- 
nomic history of England, 14 ^^^it ; economic history of United 
States, 1/2 i^iiiit ; materials of commerce. V2 unit : commercial 
geography, 14 unit; free hand or mechanical drawing, I/2 
to 2 units; manual training (shop work) I/9 to 4 unit« ; domestic 
science, 1/4 to 2 units; public speaking, 14 unit; bible, 1/4 to 
1 unit; music, 1/4 to 2 units; agriculture, (additional) ^/^ to 2 
units; psychology, 14 to 1 unit; pedagogy and methods, 1/4 
to 1 unit. 

A student who presents 1-i accepted units may be condi- 
tionally admitted to the freshman year but the entrance condi- 
tion must be removed one calendar vear after her admission. 



Two Year Home Economics Course 

TT O serve those young women who wish to get an education 

in home economics, but who cannot meet college entrance 
requirements, Iowa State College offers a two year course in 
home economics. It is open to any young woman w'ho is 
eighteen years of age who has completed the eighth grade of 
public school work or its equivalent, but who has not been 

In this course, the work in cooking includes the practical instruc- 
tion \n serving breakfasts, luncheons and dinners and the home meals 
for a full week. In management, care of the dining room, table set- 
ting, serving, marketing and cose of foods have an important place. 
Students prepare meals at certain fixed prices, plan budgets for vari- 
ous incomes, study home sanitation and decoration, learn to care for 
the sick when the services of a nurse are not required, and do actual 
washing and ironing in a thoroly equipped laundry. 

Much time is given to sewing and its related subjects. Students 
lear.n to draft patterns, to make garments and to dress appropriately 
at moderate cost. In the two years, each student makes a complete set 
of underwear, two cooking dresses, a shirt waist, a wool skirt, a lingerie 
waist, an unl ned silk and a tailored linen dress. She also renovates 
and alters an old dress. A short course in millinery helps to do much 
of her own hat making and guides her in good selections. Besides 
these studies, the students get instruction in the sciences, in English, 
in personal hygiene, literature, farm and business arithmetic, manual 
training, animal husbandry, horticulture and dairying. 

Two year home economics students enjoy the same privileges as 
freshmen in the four year courses. They may enter the classes in 
physical culture, they may have the social and literary benefits of a 
literary society, they may participate in the work of the Home 
Economics club, they may try out for membership in the musical 
organizations and they may have part in the work of the Y. W. C. A. 



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